The goal of Breaking Through, a collaboration of JFF and the National Council for Workforce Education, is to demonstrate that community colleges
can restructure themselves to create clear pathways for low-skill adults
into professional/technical certificate and degree programs. Colleges
participating in the initiative have found that incompatible data and data
systems represent a significant barrier to creating pathways into college
for adult students. Peter Ewell of the National Center for Higher Education
Management Systems has worked with the colleges to provide insight into
solutions that would be useful to any college seeking to serve low-skilled
adults.
